#  James Wood 

Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism

 

 

 



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 location\_on Office: Barker 262Office hours: By appointment (On leave Fall 2023) 

 smartphone [617-496-8484](tel:617-496-8484) 

 email <wood2@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Education: M.A., Jesus College, Cambridge (1988)

Interests: 20th Century Literature; Religion and Literature.

Selected Works:  
*The Broken Estate: Essays in Literature and Belief* (Modern Library, 1999); *Selected Shorter Fiction of D.H. Lawrence* (Modern Library, 1999); *The Book Against God* (Farrar, Straus, 2003); *The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel* (Farrar, Straus, 2004); *How Fiction Works* (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008); *The Fun Stuff and other essays* (Farrar, Strauss, 2012); *The Nearest Thing to Life: Four Lectures* (2015); *Upstate* (a novel), 2018; *Serious Noticing: Selected Essays 1997-2019* (2020)



 

 

 





 

 

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